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While becoming one of the nation's best known medical organizers, Knowles also earned the enmity of organized medicine. The American Medical Association helped to blackball him as too radical when Robert H. Finch wanted to make him Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1969. Only last month, the Massachusetts Medical Society formally censured him for accusing surgeons of performing too many operations for profit. Orthodox physicians are discomfited by his supercharged, fast-takeoff personality and his habit of shooting from the hip. Trained to shun publicity, they are scandalized by the fact that Knowles "talks...
...novelist. "It's like having a dream you can walk into any time you want to," gushes one of the Columbia Pictures secretaries who spend their lunch hours or coffee breaks on the set trying to catch glimpses of a cast that includes Charles Boyer, John Gielgud, Peter Finch, Sally Kellerman and Liv Ullman, Ingmar Bergman's most famous female star...
...acting is generally good. Jon Finch is strong and appropriately frenzied as the hero (who was a limping, balding, middle-aged fellow in the book); in a character created almost entirely by Schaffer, Alec McCowen scores as the civilized inspector who can't restrain his appetite...
...latest to fall victim to the strangler are the ex-wife (Barbara LeighHunt) and the girl friend (Anna Massey) of a former R.A.F. ace, Richard Blaney (Jon Finch). The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, author of the Broadway thriller Sleuth, almost too painstakingly builds up the circumstantial evidence that points to the ex-flyer as the killer. After Blaney is in custody he finds out what the audience has known all along: that he has been framed by his good pal Bob (Barry Foster...
Firing Line. Presidential aide Robert Finch and William F. Buckley Jr. discuss electoral reform. 8, May 7. Chan...